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...general principle that the JusticeDepartment supported--that students applying toIvy League institutions should have the benefitsof price competition--might fall by the wayside ifthe colleges interpret the new law to allow themto agree on specific formulas to determinefinancial aid awards...
...must have meant iconic. For what is a diva but a singer -- Callas in opera, Garland on the screen -- whose mission is to suffer, and to interpret suffering, for her faithful? Last we heard, Lennox was agreeably married, but that's not our business; besides, it's irrelevant to the authenticity of the pain in her strong and subtle alto pipes. What she has done in Diva is to marry that voice to a sheaf of memorable songs that map the doleful soul of a modern woman. This is angst for art's sake, something she can believe...
...have a problem that it's not a level playing field when they expect a person who is 100 percent legitimate to bid against someone who we interpret to be less than legitimate,." Chuck J. Monahan said inn April. Monahan is a representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
...They were radicals within the fundamentalist movement. The way they interpret their religion allows them to do things or to justify to themselves doing things that any normal reading of the Koran would find insane or evil. I've read the Koran; I'm not an Islamic scholar, but the words and the concept seem to me fairly plain, and they're not all that different from Christianity at base...
...paintings in his career show the same fine play between aesthetic intent and illusionism. Usually it's the eye-fooling that wins. The comment of a great American Modernist, Marsden Hartley, is cited by one essayist: "In Harnett there is nothing to bother about, nothing to confuse, nothing to $ interpret . . . there is the myopic persistence to render every single thing singly." The catalog protests this, pointing to the stories that underlie the conglomerations of things in his still lifes, which do indeed provide something to interpret. But was this what Hartley meant? In fact, no. He saw what is plainly...